'Witchcraft Traps' and 'Satanic' Rituals: Woman Allegedly Explains How Fire Was Set to Her Wisconsin Apartment

Mar. 15, 2025

Charmilia Jeffries.Photo:Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office

Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office

A Wisconsin woman arrested after allegedly starting a fire in her apartment earlier this month has provided an unconventional explanation for the blaze: “witchcraft.”

A Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department vehicle.Milwaukee Sheriff’s Department/Facebook

Milwaukee Sheriff’s Department/Facebook

She also allegedly gave a cryptic statement to authorities, telling detectives that someone had been putting “witchcraft traps” in her home, and referring to the culprit or culprits only as “they.”

“It is a satanic, um, ritual that they do, they do around these times,” she told authorities, perWISN. ”They been sitting me up, putting witchcraft traps around my house.”

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Jeffries was taken into custody the same day as the apartment fire, Dec. 21, according to jail records.

She is currently being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on a $7,500 cash bail, and is next due in court on Jan. 24.

The Milwaukee Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

source: people.com